Niche Lounge — Restaurant in Halifax

Hero Bouncer Would Not Help A Sick Kid

I don't recall this place being particularly spectacular when I lived in Nova Scotia years ago; in any case, my brother and I were visiting Halifax last Thursday evening when we walked by a family with a young boy who was sick and spilling his lunch on the sidewalk. His parents were trying to comfort him and clean him up; I offered to go grab a glass of water and napkins from the nearest place which happened to be Niche. When I explained to the bar tender why I needed a glass of water and napkins, he was more than happy to help out. As we were walking out the hero bouncer stopped us. My brother began to explain about the kid who was throwing up on the sidewalk and it was only water in the glass. The bouncer told us he “doesn’t care what it is, you can’t take the glass outside of the patio”. Again, we explained about the kid who was literally 20 paces away and again the bouncer said it didn’t matter what was in the glass, we couldn’t leave with it. His thinking seems flawed, he should care what is in the glass, what if I did walk out with alcohol? Seems like that would be bigger issue than taking a cheap beer glass.

After a few minutes of trying to explain, I said forget it, I will find a convenience store; well, then the hero bouncer felt badly because the parents of the kid could hear all of this. In the end, the bouncer handed the glass of water to the kid so he could wash the puke off his face.

I understand there are rules, and I expected the bouncer to stop and question us; however once we explained ourselves and made our intentions clear, not to mention he could see the kid and his parents, I feel the bouncer should have been more reasonable instead of puffing his chest out and pea cocking about. He made himself look like an arrogant fool.

I hope the kids parents smashed the glass on the sidewalk in...

Let me start out by saying this is not meant to be rude, but honest. Niche used to be our favourite place to go in the entire city. Their prices were great and their food was delicious! The past 4 times I have been, I don't know what has happened but it is awful. There must be a new chef, food arrives burnt to a crisp, way way way over salted, or quite evidently old. We had our favourite artichoke dip which is supposed to come with warm pita bread for dipping, the pita was so old and so burnt it felt like it turned to ash in our mouths. The calamari is like chewing a tasteless slimey rubber boot...

The drinks... any drink you order with pop in it (eg rum and coke, whiskey and ginger) your pop will most definitely be flat, very very flat. Tonight though was a new record, in which I had to send 3 completely different drinks back they tasted so awful. The house red tasted like warm, watered down expired grape juice. The shock top beer, with the rotting orange on the glass, tasted like filthy tap, and the martini they sent me had globbybar dirt floating in it, unacceptable.

This was not "a bad night". The food, drinks, and service have been awful the past few times, this is not only my report.

Also, the same stall door lock in the female bathroom has been broken for like 8 months.... it has gotten to the point where the cheap bill at the end of the night is not even worth the sickly food and drinks they serve to their paying customers. I will not spend another dime at niche, nor will I recommend...

If I could post a -1I would, My husband and I as well as friends came in this afternoon, and on top of having terrible service, our food was cold when we got it but we were in a hurry and after waiting 40 mins for it and 20 mins for him to take our order in the first place, just ate it anyway. The server decided to serve the customers that from what we could tell were either regulars or friends (as they called him by name several times, and spent time chit chatting with him). I personally have been there a few times and really enjoyed it, and after talking up your resturant to my company I was with was very dissipointed in how it all turned out. The waiter left us waiting at the door to be seated for almost 10 mins, never said 2 words to us just grabbed menus and dropped them on the table and left. He was annoyed at the fact we asked for a water refill, and took 20 mins to take our order. We watched 2 seperate tables come in, get their food and check before we even got our food. I and very dissipointed in not only the service but the quality of the food we were served. I feel that even though we are not regular customers or friends with the server our service should have been up to the same standards as everyone else. Shame on you niche! I for one will no longer be referring anyone here,...